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  Wild at Heart

  Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul

  by John Eldredge

  God designed men to be dangerous, says John Eldredge. Simply look at the dreams and desires written in the heart of every boy: To be a hero, to be a warrior, to live a life of adventure and risk. Sadly, most men abandon those dreams and desires--aided by a Christianity that feels like nothing more than pressure to be a nice guy. It is no wonder that many men avoid church, and those who go are often passive and... (more)
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  Season of Life: A Football Star, a Boy, a Journey to Manhood

  by Jeffrey Marx

  Joe Ehrmann, a former NFL football star and volunteer coach for the Gilman high school football team, teaches his players the keys to successful defense: penetrate, pursue, punish, love. Love? A former captain of the Baltimore Colts and now an ordained minister, Ehrmann is serious about the game of football but even more serious about the purpose of life. Season of Life is his inspirational story as told by... (more)
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  Women

  by Charles Bukowski

  Low-life writer and unrepentant alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. After decades of slacking off at low-paying dead-end jobs, blowing his cash on booze and women, and scrimping by in flea-bitten apartments, Chinaski sees his poetic star rising at last. Now, at fifty, he is reveling in his sudden rock-star life, running three hundred hangovers a year, and maintaining a sex life that would cripple... (more)
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  The Way of the Superior Man

  A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Woman, Work, and Sexual Desire

  by David Deida

  What is your true purpose in life? What do women really want? What makes a good lover? If you're a man reading this, you've undoubtedly asked yourself these questions-but you may not have had much luck answering them. Until now. In The Way of the Superior Man, David Deida explores the most important issues in men's lives-from career and family to women and intimacy to love and spirituality-to offer a practical... (more)
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  Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man

  by Susan Faludi

  One of the most talked-about books of last year, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Backlash now explores the collapse of traditional masculinity that has left men feeling betrayed. With Backlash in 1991, Susan Faludi broke new ground when she put her finger directly on the problem bedeviling women, and the light of recognition dawned on millions of her readers: what's making women miserable isn't something... (more)
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  To Own a Dragon

  Reflections On Growing Up Without a Father

  by Donald Miller, John MacMurray

  Join Donald Miller, the best-selling author of Blue Like Jazz, with mentor John MacMurray, as he presents a thought-provoking and humorous chronicle of lessons found in a life without a Dad.
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  He: Understanding Masculine Psychology (Perennial Library)

  by Robert A. Johnson

  This popular analyst provides important reflections on what it means to be a man, how man develops into maturity, and what components make up man's complex personality.
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  Getting Off

  Pornography and the End of Masculinity

  by Robert Jensen

  In our culture, porn makes the man. So argues Robert Jensen in Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity . Jensen's treatise begins with a simple demand: "Be a man." It ends with a defiant response: "I chose to struggle to be a human being." The journey from masculinity to humanity is found in the candid and intelligent exploration of porn's devastating role in... (more)
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  Guyland

  The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men

  by Michael Kimmel

  Why do so many guys seem stuck between adolescence and adulthood? Why do so many of them fail to launch? Just what is going on with America's young men? The passage from adolescence to adulthood was once clear, coherent, and relatively secure: in their late teenage years and early twenties, guys "put away childish things" and entered their futures as responsible adults. Today growing up has become more... (more)
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  The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea

  by Yukio Mishima

  Original title: 午後の曳航 (Gogo no Eiko)A band of savage thirteen-year-old boys reject the adult world as illusory, hypocritical, and sentimental, and train themselves in a brutal callousness they call 'objectivity'. When the mother of one of them begins an affair with a ship's officer, he and his friends idealise the man at first; but it is not long before they conclude that he is in fact soft and romantic.... (more)
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  The Way of the Wild Heart: A Map for the Masculine Journey

  by John Eldredge

  I can fix it . I don't need directions . I can figure this out on my own . These thoughts that erupt from a man's bravado, from his deep urge to be a real man . Yet underneath this, there is a louder voice countering, You can't . You're not capable . You're weak . Many men-possibly all men-face two looming questions at some point in their life. What does it mean to be a man, and am I one? The Way of the... (more)
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  Iron John

  A Book About Men

  by Robert Bly

  In this deeply learned book, poet and translator Robert Bly offers nothing less than a new vision of what it is to be a man. Bly's vision is based on his ongoing work with men and reflections on his own life. He addresses the devastating effects of remote fathers and mourns the disappearance of male initiation rites in our culture. Finding rich meaning in ancient stories and legends, Bly uses the Grimm fairy... (more)
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  Fire in the Belly : On Being a Man

  by Sam Keen

  A guide to establishing new personal ideals of heroism, strength, and potency for a fuller life examines the stereotypes, myths, and evolving roles of contemporary men, presenting an alternative vision of virtue and virility. Reprint. 100,000 first printing.
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  The Masculine Mandate: God's Calling to Men

  by Richard D. Phillips

  There is a crying need in the church today for men to be men. But competing visions for what a man is to be some growing out of popular culture and others arising from flawed teaching in the church are exacerbating the problem. Richard Phillips believes it is possible to cut through all of this confusion by consulting the Bible. Only in the pages of Scripture, he asserts, can men find a clear explanation of their... (more)
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  Townie

  by Andre Dubus III

  An acclaimed novelist reflects on his violent past and a lifestyle that threatened to destroy him—until he was saved by writing. After their parents divorced in the 1970s, Andre Dubus III and his three siblings grew up with their exhausted working mother in a depressed Massachusetts mill town saturated with drugs and crime. To protect himself and those he loved from street violence, Andre learned to use his... (more)
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  Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club

  by Anne Allison

  In Nightwork , Anne Allison opens a window onto Japanese corporate culture and gender identities. Allison performed the ritualized tasks of a hostess in one of Tokyo's many "hostess clubs": pouring drinks, lighting cigarettes, and making flattering or titillating conversation with the businessmen who came there on company expense accounts. Her book critically examines how such establishments create bonds among... (more)
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  Why Men Hate Going to Church

  by David Murrow

  It's Sunday morning. Where are all the men? Golfing? Playing softball? Watching the tube? Mowing the lawn? Sleeping? One place you won't find them is in church. Less than 40 percent of adults in most churches are men, and 20 to 25 percent of married churchgoing women attend without their husbands. And why are the men who do go to church so bored? Why won't they let God change their hearts? David Murrow's... (more)
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  The Average American Male

  by Chad Kultgen

  Are you ready to meet the average American male?
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  Manhood for Amateurs

  The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son

  by Michael Chabon

  Michael Chabon's previous books include The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (winner of the Pulitzer Prize), The Yiddish Policemen's Union (winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards and an Edgar Award finalist), Wonder Boys , The Mysteries of Pittsburgh , and the story collection A Model World and Other Storie s. He lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife, the novelist Ayelet Waldman, and their... (more)
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  Men Speak Out

  Views on Gender, Sex, and Power

  by Shira Tarrant

  Men Speak Out is a collection of essays written by and about pro-feminist men. In the essays, which feature original, lively, and accessible prose, anti-sexist men make sense of their gendered experiences in today’s culture. And since the interrelations between gender, race, class, and sexuality are central to feminism, Men Speak Out prioritizes such issues. These authors tackle the issues of feminism, growing... (more)